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[quote=Anonymous]A couple of years ago, my kid was wait-listed for Eastern; we were encouraged by our school's principal and the magnet coordinator to "appeal" the wait-list decision but supplementing your profile.  (Although the notification letter says that the selection committee will review the files of all applicants in the wait-pool in filling open seats, both the principal and magnet coordinator said that it is important to supplement the file with additional information -- otherwise, the second committee is simply reviewing the same material as the initial one and the second committee is unlikely to "disagree" with the initial placement when presented with the same information; in other words, we were strongly advised to give them "something else" to consider.)

My kid was moved from the wait-list and invited into the program within a couple of weeks from the deadline for filing an appeal (which was the same deadline for invited and waitlisted students to accept/decline the placement).  A friend's kid who also was wait-listed (and who also filed an appeal/supplemented the application) was offered a seat into the program just after the school year started, and transfered to Eastern from the local middle school in early-mid September and didn't have any problems getting up to speed.  And, there were also a couple of kid's who joined the program in seventh grade but, in one of those cases, the student was not invited from the wait-pool, but was placed at Eastern when she moved to MoCo from a similar magnet program/school in a different state -- and she seems to have done well too despite "missing" the first year of the program.    [/quote]

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